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Daniel Yanisse

Co-Founder & CEO · Checkr

Daniel Yanisse co-founded Checkr in 2014 and serves as CEO, building it into an AI-driven background-screening platform that processes tens of millions of checks a year. Before Checkr he held engineering roles in transportation and worked on Mars-rover prototypes at NASA; he studied microengineering at EPFL in Switzerland.

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Daniel Yanisse co-founded Checkr in 2014 and serves as CEO, building it into an AI-driven background-screening platform that processes tens of millions of checks a year. Before Checkr he held engineering roles in transportation and worked on Mars-rover prototypes at NASA; he studied microengineering at EPFL in Switzer…

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Daniel Yanisse is Co-Founder & CEO at Checkr.

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